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Business of the House

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Parliamentary proceeding

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531 c482 

Session

2010-12

Department

Leader of the House of Commons

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Hilary Benn | 531 c482 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House give us the forthcoming business?

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c482 (Link to this contribution) The business for the week commencing 18 July is as follows: Monday 18 July—Motions relating to nati...

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Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c489 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will apply for an Adjournment debate in Westminster Hall, or indeed on th...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c488 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman applied for a debate on the pre-recess Adjournment, which w...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) I think that the OBR was looking ahead many decades and outlining the impact of increased longevity ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c500 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Energy Secretary made a statement on electricity market reform on Tuesday, ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c487 (Link to this contribution) There will be an opportunity to ask Ministers in the Home Office questions about the number of exper...

Guto Bebb | 531 c493 (Link to this contribution) The recently published accounts of S4C, the Welsh fourth channel, showed that the interim chief exec...

Lord Barwell | 531 c497 (Link to this contribution) Can we have a debate on school discipline? Teachers, parents and pupils in my constituency tell me t...

Lord Brennan of Canton | 531 c502 (Link to this contribution) Can the Leader of the House imagine the reaction there would have been if Tony Hayward, the then chi...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c497 (Link to this contribution) We have published new guidance for teachers, which is greatly reduced in volume from 600 pages to 52...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c503-4 (Link to this contribution) There will be an opportunity on our return in September to discuss health-related issues during deba...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c498-9 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend is referring to some personal vendetta that he has with the Whips Office, and a Bi...

Neil Carmichael | 531 c497 (Link to this contribution) With the growing popularity of academies in mind, may we have a debate about the school funding form...

Mark Pawsey | 531 c500 (Link to this contribution) Later this year, private sewers will be transferred to water and sewerage companies, and many househ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend on his activity on the issue; in the previous Parliament, he initiated a nu...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c489 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman and happy to have those discussions with the Secretary of ...

Andrew Turner | 531 c495 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House agree to have a debate on jobs? In one year, three out of every four jo...

David Nuttall | 531 c503 (Link to this contribution) May we have a statement and debate on the increasing amount of our national debt? That would give th...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c498 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Gentleman for his tenacity on this subject. My right hon. Friend certainly plans ...

Kwasi Kwarteng | 531 c496 (Link to this contribution) Given the roll-out of the academies programme, does the Leader of the House agree that it would be t...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c503 (Link to this contribution) I listened, as I am sure my hon. Friend did, to my hon. Friend the Member for Bromsgrove (Sajid Javi...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c502 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's concern. My view is that that is a matter for the House rather tha...

Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 531 c489 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House update the House on whether there has been any change in the policy on ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c497 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: the funding regime for academies is no longer appropriate. It was designed ...

Paul Flynn | 531 c496-7 (Link to this contribution) Certain elements in our constitution are well represented in the Palace of Westminster with statues,...

Andrew Love | 531 c502 (Link to this contribution) Earlier this week, I was surprised and just a little shocked to learn from the National House-Buildi...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c488-9;531 c488 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that we have made regular statements on Libya, and indeed on Afghanista...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's concern. He is asking us to do as an emergency something that the ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the debate was replied to by a Minister from that Department who has responsibilit...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady may know that when my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate ...

Nick Raynsford | 531 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) In a Westminster Hall debate on 28 June, the Minister for Housing and Local Government, speaking abo...

Dan Jarvis | 531 c495 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Government launched what was described as a six-month review of our reserve forces on...

Peter Bone | 531 c498-9 (Link to this contribution) This year has been an amazing one for the scrutiny of Parliament, the best in decades. That is down ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c501 (Link to this contribution) I gather that that matter was raised during Business, Innovation and Skills questions. How the SNP E...

Clive Efford | 531 c493;531 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) We have only two sitting days left, and it is important that this House is reported to on the progre...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c499 (Link to this contribution) Bullying and harassment of NHS staff by patients, members of the public or other staff is wholly una...

Ian Murray | 531 c501 (Link to this contribution) The Scottish National party has decided to impose huge tuition fees on English students who go to Sc...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c500 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right that later this year, responsibility for private sewers connected to t...

James Morris | 531 c488 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on transparency in Government? If we are serious about reforming public service...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c502 (Link to this contribution) I understand that there was a debate on housing market renewal on Tuesday in Westminster Hall. I hop...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c504 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend might be opening a bidding war in stating that he wants the green investment bank to ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c492 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The whole House will want to send its sympathy to the friends and r...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 531 c486 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will have heard encouraging remarks from the Under-Secretary of State for En...

William Cash | 531 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) With regard to the terms of reference for the Leveson inquiry, will my right hon. Friend make a note...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c493;531 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister dealt with this in his statement yesterday. It is a criminal offence to destroy d...

Nicholas Dakin | 531 c488 (Link to this contribution) I was fortunate enough to accompany Sergeant James Main and the Respect team to see at first hand th...

Jim Sheridan | 531 c487 (Link to this contribution) Has the Leader of the House had the opportunity to see the latest National Audit Office report on th...

David Ruffley | 531 c491;531 c490-1 (Link to this contribution) Select Committees will have a vital role in getting to the truth behind the allegations of phone hac...

Heidi Alexander | 531 c499 (Link to this contribution) In a week when the House has rightly been focused on the phone hacking scandal, there is of course a...

John McDonnell | 531 c492 (Link to this contribution) On Tuesday, I raised under a point of order a concern that the Ministry of Justice has written to al...

Gerald Kaufman | 531 c490 (Link to this contribution) Has the right hon. Gentleman seen early-day motion 2070, which stands in my name and those of severa...

Ian Swales | 531 c494 (Link to this contribution) In areas as diverse as energy-intensive industries and children with myalgic encephalomyelitis, the ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c490 (Link to this contribution) This is a horrifying case and our sympathies go out to the family and friends. I know that it can ca...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear that unemployment has fallen in my hon. Friend's constituency, and I hope tha...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c503 (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend's concern that we have been unable to establish that Joint Committee to look ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c491 (Link to this contribution) I think I would like to take some advice before I go down that particular route. The position is tha...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c495 (Link to this contribution) It is very important that as the economy recovers and the 900,000 jobs are created, as forecast by t...

Karen Bradley | 531 c490 (Link to this contribution) Sixteen-year old Hayley Bates from Biddulph was killed in a road traffic accident last year. Her par...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c498 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's concern, and I believe that the matter was raised a few moments ag...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c496-7 (Link to this contribution) It is right that we have statues in the Palace of Westminster that remind us of our traditions and t...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c495 (Link to this contribution) I will convey to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence the strong view of the hon....

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) I take the right hon. Gentleman's point seriously. He and I have a mutual interest in housing matter...

Henry Smith | 531 c487 (Link to this contribution) Can consideration be given to a debate on the future of animal experimentation, particularly in ligh...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c498 (Link to this contribution) My experience of leaning on the Treasury is that it tends to lean back, but I am very happy to raise...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c493 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to hear of the problems that confront the hon. Gentleman's constituents. There will be an...

Barry Sheerman | 531 c494;531 c493-4 (Link to this contribution) May I reinforce the fact that this is a unique opportunity for the House to make very clear the resp...

Jim Shannon | 531 c505 (Link to this contribution) Food prices continue to rise at an alarming rate across the whole of the United Kingdom. In the past...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c504 (Link to this contribution) The purpose behind one of the key components of the military covenant was precisely to help those le...

Tony Baldry | 531 c501 (Link to this contribution) I think everyone in the House is agreed that our pensions should be no different in principle from t...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to hear of my hon. Friend's problems. I understand that the director of operations at IPS...

Greg Knight | 531 c485 (Link to this contribution) The Government have encouraged the Procedure Committee to take on the remit of the now defunct Moder...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c492 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman referred to the written ministerial statement. We are committed to delivering ref...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c499 (Link to this contribution) It is an important issue, and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Developm...

Diana Johnson | 531 c503 (Link to this contribution) With the publication this morning of the national crime statistics showing that burglaries have gone...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c501 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that a written ministerial statement today outlines the Government's positi...

Rehman Chishti | 531 c499 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Leader of the House for an urgent debate on the Floor of the House on the quality of c...

Nick Smith | 531 c503-4 (Link to this contribution) In the next few months, Southern Cross will be broken up. During that period, the 30,000 residents i...

Neil Parish | 531 c502 (Link to this contribution) When does the Leader of the House expect my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment...

Julian Smith | 531 c504 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the Yorkshire Post ““Fair Deal for Yorkshire”” campaign, particularly regard...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c502 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend's concern. TB causes real difficulties for farmers in many parts of the ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c485 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for the work that he is doing on the Procedure Committee; as h...

Ian Mearns | 531 c496 (Link to this contribution) I have been working with and on behalf of my constituent, Miriam Khan, whose mother was tragically m...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend made this point in yesterday's exchanges. Of course, the broadcasting media already h...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c487 (Link to this contribution) I have read the report, and the hon. Gentleman will know that IPSA gave evidence to the Public Accou...

Thomas Docherty | 531 c498 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Leader of the House, his deputy and most importantly his courteous and professional ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c486 (Link to this contribution) That, in a sense, follows on from the two earlier questions about the responsibilities of the Backbe...

Stephen Twigg | 531 c493 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on patients' rights in the national health service? My constituents, Frances an...

Gavin Williamson | 531 c496 (Link to this contribution) Can we have a debate on the NHS, and specifically on the measures the Government are taking to reduc...

Hilary Benn | 531 c482-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Leader of the House for that reply. It is good to see him back at the Dispatch ...

Greg Mulholland | 531 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) The save the pub group was delighted when the coalition Government agreed to stick to the plan put i...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c490 (Link to this contribution) I understand the right hon. Gentleman's concern. I think I am right in saying that there have been o...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c491;531 c490-1 (Link to this contribution) If a Select Committee feels that there has been a contempt, the procedure is that it makes a report ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c488 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that the Prime Minister wrote to all Ministers earlier this month committin...

Christopher Pincher | 531 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) I am loth to ask the Leader of the House this question just before the recess, but may we have a deb...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c496 (Link to this contribution) I would very much welcome such a debate to draw attention to the huge increase in the number of acad...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c505 (Link to this contribution) Was the hon. Gentleman referring to fuel prices? Food is every bit as important as fuel. I cannot ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c503 (Link to this contribution) I understand where the hon. Lady is coming from on this, but I must just remind her that before the ...

Anne Main | 531 c489 (Link to this contribution) Network Rail has given an abysmal performance, missing eight out of 10 of its own targets. Surely it...

Brandon Lewis | 531 c493 (Link to this contribution) When does the Leader of the House envisage our being able to debate the opening up off public servic...

Mike Gapes | 531 c488-9;531 c488 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House knows that regular statements are made about the situation in Libya, but it ...

Lord Sarwar | 531 c500 (Link to this contribution) My question follows the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for North West Durham (Pat Glass)....

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c494;531 c493-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that under the previous Administration there was a Joint Committee on P...

Natascha Engel | 531 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) Following on from the point raised by the right hon. Member for East Yorkshire (Mr Knight), the Lead...

Chris Bryant | 531 c491 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker; you are very cheeky. As I understand it, the Deputy Serjeant at Arms has alr...

Lord McCabe | 531 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) I was astonished to read in one of today's papers that the independent Office for Budget Responsibil...

Gregg McClymont | 531 c504 (Link to this contribution) Like so many ex-servicemen, my constituent Mr William Young has found it difficult to enter the dome...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c482-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. I used to put some light-hearted items on my website, unt...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c495 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to hear of the increase in burglaries in Wolverhampton now that the price of gold has gon...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c493 (Link to this contribution) I understand the concern that my hon. Friend has expressed. I should like to share it with the Welsh...

Jonathan Ashworth | 531 c498 (Link to this contribution) Does the Leader of the House share my disappointment that the Department for Business, Innovation an...

Robert Halfon | 531 c489;531 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) May we have a debate on the Laffer curve and petrol taxes, because figures from the AA show that the...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c496 (Link to this contribution) There will be an opportunity on Tuesday to cross-question Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ministers ...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c497 (Link to this contribution) The UK banks have been stress tested. I cannot offer the hon. Gentleman the sort of debate that he h...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c493 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that there is an appetite in Great Yarmouth to take forward the agenda that the Minis...

Alun Cairns | 531 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) The number of jobseeker's allowance claimants in the Vale of Glamorgan has fallen by 25% over the pa...

Bob Blackman | 531 c498 (Link to this contribution) The Government can be rightly proud that we have done more in 13 months than the Labour party did to...

Adrian Bailey | 531 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, in response to my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman), the Leader of the ...

Baroness Berger | 531 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) I was in the unfortunate situation, on Tuesday in my housing market renewal Westminster Hall debate,...

David Mowat | 531 c503 (Link to this contribution) The Leader of the House will be aware that four times now, Opposition Members have objected to the s...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the work that the hon. Lady does on her Committee. We have, of course, allocated a day nex...

Barry Gardiner | 531 c497 (Link to this contribution) Given that a rating agency has suspended its classification of US sovereign debt pending a review an...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c494 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may know that in the last Parliament, we had cross-cutting questions in Westminst...

Pat Glass | 531 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) The recent announcements of huge increases in gas and electricity prices have left many of my consti...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c489;531 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) As someone with an economics degree, I am always happy to debate the Laffer curve. The fair fuel sta...

Priti Patel | 531 c492 (Link to this contribution) Will the Leader of the House follow me in condemning the appalling bombings that took place in Mumba...

Paul Uppal | 531 c495 (Link to this contribution) There has been a correlation between the rise in the gold price over the past few years and the numb...

Lord Young of Cookham | 531 c496 (Link to this contribution) Yes; we can have two debates on the NHS when we come back in September. Since the general election, ...

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